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Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,
Drew Priam’s curtain in the dead of night,
And would have told him, half his Troy was burn'd.

Northumberland, scene i

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Remember’d tolling a departing friend.

Northumberland, scene i

Let Heaven kiss earth! Now let not nature's hand
Keep the wild flood confin'd! let order die!
And let this world no longer be a stage,
To feed contention in a lingering act.

Northumberland, scene i

You cast the event of war, my noble lord,
And summ'd the account of chance, before you said
"Let us make head." It was your presurmise,
That, in the dole of blows, your son might drop:
You knew he walk'd o'er perils, on an edge,
More likely to fall in than to get o'er;
You were advised his flesh was capable
Of wounds and scars and that his forward spirit
Would lift him where most trade of danger ranged:
Yet did you say "Go forth;" and none of this,
Though strongly apprehended, could restrain
The stiff-borne action: what hath then befallen,
Or what hath this bold enterprise brought forth,
More than that being which was like to be?

Morton, scene i

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

Falstaff, scene ii

A rascally yea-forsooth knave!

Falstaff, scene ii

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

Falstaff, scene ii

Since all is well, keep it so: wake not a sleeping wolf.

Lord Chief Justice, scene ii

We that are in the vaward of our youth.

Falstaff, scene ii

For my voice, — I have lost it with hollaing, and singing of anthems.

Falstaff, scene ii

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

Falstaff, scene ii

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust, than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Falstaff, scene ii

If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle.

Falstaff, scene ii

A good wit will make use of anything; I will turn diseases to commodity.

Falstaff, scene ii

Who lin'd himself with hope,
Eating the air on promise of supply.

Bardolph, scene iii

When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection. 1

Bardolph, scene iii

An habitation giddy and unsure
Hath he, that buildeth on the vulgar heart.

Can'st thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude;
And, in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down!
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown'.

King Henry IV, scene i

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?

Shallow, scene ii

Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated: or when a man is, — being, — whereby, — he may be thought to be accommodated; which is an excellent thing.

Bardolph, scene ii

Let that suffice, most forcible Feeble.

Falstaff, scene ii

We have heard the chimes at midnight.

Falstaff, scene ii

A man can die but once; — we owe God a death.

Feeble, scene ii

I do remember him at Clement's-inn, like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when he was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.